The accessibility movement encourages web sites
to be built to allow people with disabilities to view them. For
example, one accessibility standard is that all images have "alternate
text" and "long descriptions" coded into the HTML. This would be
useful for software that reads web pages out loud for blind people.
Even if they cannot see your images, the software can read the description
of the image out loud.
There are two different guidelines often used when
determining whether a site is "accessible": the US Government Section
508 Guidelines and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This template was built to meet as many of those
standards as possible. It meets all the Priority 1 standards of
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and all of the Section
508 Guidelines. If you are concerned with accessibility, you will
need to take responsibility to label all your tables and images
and to avoid technologies or scripting that may not be accessible.
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